Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> I could go with that too. The question here is do we have any popular
>> use-cases that aren't solved by that extension, but could be solved by
>> simple user-level data formatting functions?
> (I can't believe I'm saying this, but) It seems like xml output would be the
> use case you're looking for.
Does that fall into the category of stuff that could be supported by the
kind of API we're talking about? I should think that XML would need a
much more global view of the data, not just line-by-line reformatting.
regards, tom lane